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The Brazil side of the early 2000s was arguably the last truly great Selecao team.

The devastating full-back pairing of Cafu and Roberto Carlos was supplemented by an awe-inspiring frontline of Ronaldinho, Ronaldo and Rivaldo, and it was this side that won Brazil’s last World Cup title in 2002.

Only once since then have Brazil reached the semi-final stage of the World Cup, with the 2014 last-four thrashing on home soil by Germany an occasion that every Brazilian football fan would rather forget.

Former Aston Villa striker Juan Pablo Angel scored nine goals in 33 appearances for Colombia, but his strike in a 2-1 World Cup qualifying defeat in 2003 remains something he will never forget.

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After Sunday’s loss to the Dallas Cowboys, New York Jets quarterback Justin Fields had a bullish reaction to hearing that no team in NFL history has ever made the playoffs after starting the season with a 0-5 record.

“There’s a first time for everything, brother,” Fields told reporters. “The team is good, we have a locker room full of warriors, a locker room full of men that want to get better.”

The Jets remained winless after falling 37-22 in front of their home fans at MetLife Stadium in a game that wasn’t as close as the final score makes it seem. The team was trailing 10-3 and made it to the red zone late in the first half before a fumble by Breece Hall kicked off a series of unfortunate events that resulted in a 23-3 halftime deficit.

Fields threw for 283 yards and a pair of touchdowns that came when the game was well out of hand, and he added 26 rushing yards. He was sacked five times while facing a Cowboys defense that ranked among the worst in the NFL entering Sunday’s game.

Still, Fields made it clear that the Jets haven’t given up on the 2025 season as first-year head coach Aaron Glenn tries to rebuild the culture of the downtrodden franchise.

“We’re not looking at ‘no team has ever made the playoffs after an 0-5 start,'” Fields added. “That’s the goal, at the end of the day. We’re not basing our life off of a statistic, so to say.”

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Recording artist Bad Bunny quipped his critics “have four months to learn” Spanish while delivering his opening monologue on Saturday Night Live.

The three-time Grammy Award winner referenced his selection as the halftime performer at Super Bowl LX next February. He then teed up a carefully edited clip of Fox News personalities saying, “Bad Bunny is my favorite musician, and he should be the next president.”

Bad Bunny followed up by saying how excited he is to have the Super Bowl halftime slot before giving a message in his native Spanish.

“Especially all of the Latinos and Latinas in the world here in the United States who have worked to open doors, it’s more than a win for myself, it’s a win for all of us,” he said, as translated by People‘s Nicholas Rice. “Our footprints and our contribution in this country, no one will ever be able to take that away or erase it.”

He closed the monologue by reminding viewers how much time they have to brush up on the language before the Super Bowl.

The NFL announced on Sept. 28 that Bad Bunny will be taking the stage at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.

The 31-year-old is one of the most popular musicians in the world, regularly sitting near the top of Spotify’s annual streaming rankings. Combine that with the NFL’s continued efforts to expand the sport abroad, and he’s the perfect fit for the Super Bowl.

Bad Bunny’s selection is historic as he’s the first halftime performer who sings exclusively in Spanish.

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Golden State Warriors teammates Jimmy Butler and Draymond Green were present at UFC 320 in Las Vegas on Saturday night.

Light heavyweight champion Magomed Ankalaev looked to defend his title against former two-division champion Alex Pereira in the main event, while bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili sought to defend his title against Cory Sandhagen in the co-main event.

Butler and Green are also gearing up for the 2025-26 season with the Warriors, their first full year sharing the court.

The Warriors acquired Butler during the 2024-25 season as part of a blockbuster trade with the Miami Heat on Feb. 5.

Golden State immediately excelled following the acquisition, ending the regular season by posting a 23-7 record in 30 games with the six-time All-Star in its lineup.

Butler averaged 17.9 points, 5.9 assists, 5.5 rebounds and 1.7 steals per game as a member of the Warriors.

Golden State ended the year with a 48-34 overall record, advancing to the Western Conference semifinals before falling to the Minnesota Timberwolves in five games. It’s worth noting that Warriors superstar Stephen Curry only appeared in one contest during the series due to hamstring issues.

Meanwhile, Green continued to anchor Golden State’s defense. He averaged 9.0 points, 6.1 rebounds, 5.6 assists and 1.5 steals per game on 42.4/32.5/68.7 shooting splits last season.

The Warriors will open their 2025-26 campaign against the Los Angeles Lakers on Oct. 21.

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For years, Asuka, Iyo Sky, and Kairi Sane have been best friends both in and out of the ring. They had a lot of shared experience wrestling in Japan, being highly scouted before coming to wrestle for WWE.

Asuka and Sane have been a tag team called The Kabuki Warriors for several years now. They joined Sky alongside Bayley and Dakota Kai when Damage CTRL was an active faction.

After Bayley got kicked out and Kai got released, they decided to stick together. However, their friendship completely imploded due to Skyâ€s association with Rhea Ripley.

A few weeks ago on Monday Night Raw, Asuka turned on Sky due to her Ripley connection with Sane stuck in the middle. To get viewers caught up on the story, the WWE YouTube channel uploaded another WWE Playlist video about how things got to where they are. This video goes into detail about how things got so bad between seemingly inseparable friends.

This video chronicles how Sky and The Kabuki Warriors went from friends to enemies. The interesting thing about this story is that Asuka is the one whoâ€s angry, Sky wants to forgive Asuka, Ripley wants Sky to walk away from both of them, and Sane is stuck in the middle. Itâ€s not as simple as just Asuka and Sky hating each other. Sane and Ripley are very important to the story as well.

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The story is woven throughout multiple matches and backstage segments. There have been consequential things happening in matches with Nikki Bella, Stephanie Vaquer, and others. Asuka and Sky havenâ€t had a one-on-one match yet or even a confrontation. The whole buildup has happened as the three have wrestled other women.

The matches are served as a way to drive the story forward, which is smart. Once they actually wrestle each other, the payoff is going to be well earned.

Overall, this was a great video showing how a great friendship crumbled in a short amount of time. In wrestling, there are always sudden turns and betrayals between friends. This type of video produced by WWE is a great way to show fans what happened in a straightforward way so they can fully understand the story.

Each week, Sky and Ripley got closer and closer with each other. That put an immense strain onto the friendship between Asuka and Sky. When Sky ran out to stop Asuka and Sane from beating down Ripley, Asuka finally snapped on her former friend. She had enough of someone she trusted for years helping someone whoâ€s been a rival.

Itâ€ll be interesting to see where Sane goes with all of this, as she is clearly stuck between obeying Asuka and helping Sky. With the go-home Raw and Crown Jewel coming up next week, the story between them and Ripley will certainly embark on its next compelling chapter.

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Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase seems to be ready to stop discussing the viral clip of his seemingly heated interaction with head coach Zac Taylor on the sideline of Monday’s Week 4 loss to the Denver Broncos.

When asked Thursday if he thought the incident with Taylor had been “overblown,” Chase answered, “Everything I do is pretty much overblown.”

Chase continued, “It happens. That’s normal, I feel like, for me and Zac. That’s not my first time doing that. Zac lets me walk up to him and talk to him, he wants me to do that. Sometimes my emotions pick up. It might look like I’m yelling, but I’m definitely just talking to him sometimes.”

Chase later added, “It is good to have, especially when you’re just going through a tough game like that. Zac lets me talk to him… He’s always willing to listen.”

Chase seemingly responded to the clip after his interaction with Taylor went viral late Monday night on social media:

Chase received a team-high eight targets in Monday’s loss, catching five for 23 yards as the Bengals were held without a touchdown in a 28-3 defeat.

The wideout’s numbers are overall down this season after recording an NFL-high 1,708 receiving yards in 2024.

Through four games this season, Chase has amassed 264 receiving yards while recording a career-low 10.2 yards per catch.

When asked Thursday if his conversation with Taylor had been about getting more targets, Chase answered, “It’s half of that.”

“You’ve got to remember, we receivers, we can’t get the ball to ourselves. That’s the hardest part about our job, at the end of the day,” Chase said.

Frustration in Cincinnati seems inevitable given the team’s downslide since losing Joe Burrow to a toe injury necessitating surgery in Week 2.

With Jake Browning under center, the Bengals have been outscored in Weeks 3 and 4 by a total of 76-13 while recording just 330 total yards of offense.

Taylor told reporters Wednesday that he has “unwavering” confidence in Browning going forward. Whether Browning and the Bengals’ offense are able to find more success in Sunday’s Week 5 action against the Detroit Lions could impact the frustration levels in the Cincinnati locker room going forward.

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Having already adopted certain physical techniques to protect himself, Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa has also made changes to his diet to help avoid future concussions.

Speaking to reporters about his eating habits, Tagovailoa explained that his doctors have stressed the importance of adding carbs to his meals along with water to keep more fluid in his body.

The discussion came about in the wake of Tagovailoa taking a hard hit to his head and neck area as he was sliding down from New York Jets linebacker Kiko Mauigoa in the third quarter of Monday’s game.

Mauigoa was flagged for unnecessary roughness on the play. Tagovailoa did bounce right up and was okay, but it was a scary moment given his history of concussions.

There has been a lot of attention around the various ways that Tagovailoa has gone about trying to avoid significant head injuries. He began practicing jiu-jitsu after suffering two concussions during the 2022 season in an effort to learn how to fall in ways that protect his body.

“So I mean, with jiu-jitsu, I’ve been thrown airborne, I’ve been put in many uncomfortable positions for me to learn how to fall and try to react throughout those positions that I’m getting thrown around in,” Tagovailoa told ESPN’s Marcel Louis-Jacques in June 2023.

There have been some setbacks along the way. Tagovailoa did suffer a concussion in the third quarter of Miami’s Week 2 game against the Buffalo Bills last season. It was his fourth documented concussion dating back to his final year at Alabama in 2019.

Since returning to the lineup in Week 8 last season, Tagovailoa has started 13 of Miami’s last 15 games. He missed the final two games of the 2024 campaign due to a hip injury.

There will always be a sense of unease whenever Tagovailoa is on the field because of how often he has suffered concussions, but hopefully the steps he is taking to protect himself as much as possible keep working.

After a rough game to start this season, Tagovailoa has played well for the Dolphins. He’s completing 71.4 percent of his attempts with 638 passing yards, six touchdowns and two interceptions since Week 2.

Miami earned its first win of the season against the Jets on Monday Night Football. The Dolphins will look to keep their positive momentum going on Sunday against the Carolina Panthers.

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Colorado head coach Deion Sanders had a good laugh about how son Shedeur answered questions regarding his spot in the depth chart after the Cleveland Browns benched starter Joe Flacco.

Shedeur remains the third-stringer behind new QB1 Dillon Gabriel and Flacco. How does he feel about that? Well, it’s anybody’s guess because he didn’t actually say anything Wednesday.

Deion seemingly approved, posting “Good 1 son” in an Instagram comment.

Shedeur’s approach was seemingly a nod to ESPN analyst and former NFL head coach Rex Ryan. During Monday’s edition of Get Up, Ryan said the rookie “talks” and “runs his mouth.”

Ryan took particular issue with Sanders saying last week he’s better than some of the starting quarterbacks in the league right now.

Sanders is in a tough position because he creates news whenever he speaks publicly. And as Wednesday showed, he can spark headlines even when he doesn’t vocalize anything.

All of this is a good example of why so many teams balked at picking the former Colorado star in the 2025 NFL draft.

Maybe he proves to be a capable starting-caliber QB in the pros. For now, he’s commanding more attention than just about any third-string quarterback in recent memory.

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Loop. Drift. Dip. Turn. And Bowled. During the 1st IND vs WI Test, Kuldeep Yadav produced a peach of a delivery in just the second over of his comeback to the Indian Test side to remove West Indies†middle-order rock, Shai Hope.

The India vs West Indies Test series commences on Thursday, October 2, in Ahmedabad. Kuldeep, who was benched for the entire five-Test series in England and had missed last yearâ€s tour of Australia due to an injury, was picked in the XI ahead of Axar Patel, marking this his first appearance in Test cricket after almost a year.

While the surface in Ahmedabad was uncharacteristically greenish, with Mohammed Siraj and Jasprit Bumrah sharing the first four West Indies scalps, Kuldeep weaved his magic straightaway. The fact he got so much turn and assistance from a pace-friendly surface reinforced the belief that he would have been effective on the dry, flatter surfaces in England in the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy earlier this year.

Chase had been batting well against the pacers, hitting three boundaries as he reached 26 runs at a healthy strike rate of around 70.

However, his attempt to crash Kuldeep through the off-side region proved fatal. Kuldeep, in his second over, sent down a loopy, big leg-break that pitched well outside the off-stump, inviting Hope for an expansive drive away from his body, to which the right-hander obliged.

Hope was clearly beaten by the drift and dip on Kuldeepâ€s delivery, which turned in sharply, beating Hopeâ€s inside edge and thudding into the off-stump. The batsman was left dumbfounded as he looked on at the stumps and the bowler with an expression of shock, while Kuldeep wheeled away, celebrating his first Test wicket after a year.

IND vs WI: [Watch] Kuldeep Yadav Bowls Shai Hope With A Beautiful Delivery

Meanwhile, all-rounder Justin Greaves is holding his end well against the Indian bowlers, with support from Khary Pierre. At the time of writing, the visitors are in a fragile spot at 139/6. Siraj has taken three wickets; Bumrah and Kuldeep, one each.

IND vs WI Playing XIs:

India: KL Rahul, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sai Sudharsan, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Nitish Reddy, Kuldeep Yadav, Washington Sundar, Shubman Gill (C), Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj

West Indies: John Campbell, Shai Hope (wk), Khary Pierre, Alick Athanaze, Roston Chase (C), Tagenarine Chanderpaul, Justin Greaves, Jomel Warrican, Brandon King, Johann Layne, Jayden Seales

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Stanford is immortalizing Andrew Luck’s Civil War-era alter ego.

The school announced Wednesday it will give away 20,000 bobbleheads of the retired quarterback dressed as “Capt. Andrew Luck” ahead of its Nov. 29 game against No. 21 Notre Dame.

The joke dates back to 2014, when SB Nation’s Rodger Sherman noted the striking resemblance between Luck and Rufus King, a brigadier general for the Union army. Ryan Van Bibber, one of Sherman’s colleagues, went a step further in 2015 and began recounting Luck’s on-field exploits in the style of battlefield letters.

The “Capt. Andrew Luck” parody account on social media followed that and grew in popularity.

The author behind the account followed the lead of Luck and effectively retired the account in August 2019, when Luck walked away from the NFL. The captain came back to life when the former Indianapolis Colts star returned to his alma mater as the general manager for the football program.

The bobblehead giveaway is a testament to the staying power of “Capt. Andrew Luck” a decade after its invention. This also demonstrates Luck’s willingness to be a front-facing figure as he tries to make Stanford relevant on the gridiron again.

The Cardinal are off to a 2-3 start in 2025 with wins over Boston College and San Jose State.

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